New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-05
all tho Same, would do well TO send Chicago
marked copy Of the poem containing that remark

| Ia O weirdly beautiful phrase. but II the new
South is to achieve enduring progress 1t must set
Its face like flint against such enervating Injuries
Smith was arrested This is the closing line
in a short account Of the shooting of woman.
on Saturday by young man who was practising
with toy pistol But why should Smith have
been arrestedp He didn't know there was
hole in the fence and q woman on the other
side. ID wasn't his fault they were there
Hundreds Of small boys bad been shooting toy
pistols oil day In the streets under the very noses
of the police and had not been arrested or inter-
fered with. 1t was due to no virtue on their
port that tho bullets were not stopped by the
bodies of living persons. Some thousands Of toy
pistols were actively engaged all day yesterday.
Tho boys who used them had no evil intentions
they were entirely innocent Of malice and didnt
want TO hurt anybody. To-day We shall read
that few of them have been arrested, but 1t
will be only those whose sport was Interrupted
by obtrusive persons who placed themselves within
range of their rlaythings This il hardly fair
they did nothing that the others didn't do. Ii
tho sale and use of the dangerous toy are to be
permitted let US accept the legitimate result
cheerfully II little boys ore to have full swing
on the Fourth, don't let q few Of them be locked
up In hot, stuffy station houses on account of
mere accidents.
What has the Goddess Of Liberty done that she
should be greeted on the glorious Fourth with an
elaborate FREQ trade lecture from that obsequfous
organ Of English economies Tho New-York
Times "
'"The ST. Paul Pioneer Press accuses the Mayor
Of Minneapolis Of being guilty of mingled I'M
pudence and malevolence" 1t broadly inslnuates
that the Mayor Of Minneapolis mover did days
work In his life; It asserts that the Mayor OF
Minneap polls knows nothing Of labor except MS
o politicians catchword and nothing OF tho
laborer except as q demagogue's tool" 1t refers
to the Mayor Of Minneapolis as "a professional
mischiefmalSer and strife breeder between capital
md labor" 1t declines TO acquit the Mayor of
Minneapolis Of "treachery' to st. Paul workmen
and ST. Paul itself An impression Is understood
to be gaining ground in Minnesota that the re-
lations existing between "Ihe st. Paul Pioneer
Press" and the Mayor of Minneapolis have become
somewhat strained in places.
The downtown ferries on the East and North
Rivers soon to be connected by an electric
street railway. There has long been need OF
means Of direct comm unication here, and In these
crowded streets cars run by electricity will be
less In the way than those pulled by horses. II
the North River ferries could be connected with
the Bridge also, it would be decided convenience.
To correspondent: You writo to inquire the
author OF the poem beginning.
A barrier hath risen between
Thy heart aud mne friend, wcen-.
Cruel and strong, though all unseen!
We made that barrier, thou and 1,
And strengthened 1t "a days went by.
All, me, scarce know how or why
Some say IL was composed by David Is. Hill,
a poet residing at Albany. Others ascribe IT TO
IT, Cleveland q Washington bard 1t sounds
Ike both OF them.
What is this that "1he NcwYorlx Tines Is
trying TO prove for the benefit of its free trade
patrons: that the bondage OF protection and high
thrills is worse than the British bondage against
which the immortal Declaration was a protest?
The weather lis warm and nobody Is Inspirations.
let the naturallzed free traders rage and imagine
vain things
A poet who contributes TO "Thc Atlanta Con-
concludes as follows:
Oh, who can doubt thou passed'st out
From this poor scene which We call Life
To higher, purer lotier strife.
Ard thlne 10 still tho victory
Were IL not that we dislike TO say anything
calculated TO agitate the bloody shirt. we would
venture TO ask this bard tho precisefsgnifcanco
OF still as employed by him In the last line
OF this eIusion.
That will be a curious conslomcrate which win
cons, itute the Con, oc alton Free IA uan ent 10